The purpose of this course is to explain to students the importance of open content to education and scientific research. In the first lesson students will learn about the necessity of the open content availability. The second lesson will explore the benefits of reusing open access content and will present some of the open access content services. In the end of the course students be able to recognise the open access content and apply the open standards to their own content.
Estimated time to complete this lesson: 45 minutes
This lesson will teach you the benefits of reusing open access content and will provide some of the open access content services. Estimated time to complete this lesson: 80 minutes
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Benefits of reuse
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Open Definition (website)
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Science publishing: Open access must enable open use
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The benefits and practice of openness
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SPARC Europe, Benefits of Open Access (website)
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Open Data Handbook: why Open Data?
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Open Knowledge Resources for Higher Education: Scholarly Publications, Course Materials, Academic Software.
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CORE - COnnecting REpositories
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OpenDOAR
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Jisc Publications Router